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To: American Spirit who wrote (63676)	12/30/2002 5:22:18 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

So often we hear televised reports about how "Saddam poisoned his own people." Rarely, if ever, do we hear: "Saddam poisoned his own people with the poisons we gave him." Oh, well. Here's an interesting WP account of America's complicity with Iraq back when it was convenient to be complitious with the 'Big Bad Saddam.' >>>Among the people instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was Donald H. Rumsfeld, now defense secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Hussein as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an "almost daily" basis in defiance of international conventions.<<< washingtonpost.com